Interesting. Musings of the poet. You offer another way of seeing life.

Isn't it marvelous how we affect youth. Just when we think we are not getting through, the light goes on through their struggle. Obviously through this student who completely forgot about her grade. I could see you in this poem as the teacher quizzically looking over her shoulder.

Thank you this was marvelous!

Lily

I like this poem.

I salute You, Poet.

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

For a dying art. Wonderfully written
CarolHawks

Striking piece, especially from the third stanza on, when the reader begins to see AND feel the whole process.

A lovely, lively metaphor, followed by that line in the end that looks like an insignificant detail and yet means a lot.

Passionate and beautiful.

Axilea

How funny that Charlie wrote what she did... hee, hee... When I read this poem I thought of Charlie...and wondered if it was somehow about her.
I guess not, since it was the first poem she ever read of yours, but then... maybe you were dreaming of a student like Charlie.

I love the imagery of the poem...and feel it puts into perfect words what many poets feel.

Cryssa
(You might want to correct the spelling on the title...Laguage...) :~)

This tops my favorites of all the poems on AD. I love it. The imagery in this is outstanding, and feeds me. Everything I love about the English language comes out beautifully in this piece-- that euphony of sounds play out in a wonderful array, "She makes a list of metaphors"... hear those gorgeous s and m sounds melting together in all sorts of combinations? "Sensing a pattern in the world of chance"... soft explosives punctuating scenes, "and pushes a poem like a pie in her face"...gutterals mixed with liquids "Clusters of images cling to her lashes"; it's so lovely, it almost makes me want to cry at its beauty. And I felt that way the very first time I read this poem. It was the first of all of Dadvid Hightower's poems that I read. And I was hooked. And as a teacher of language, I wanted that-- wanted what this teacher saw/felt... for one of my students to feel that same way about words--about poetry as I did. This is an incredible write. A world-class poem. --Charlie

I'm back in class...my very favorite.

David, this is an excellent piece of writing, taking us to school in more ways then one.

Cheers,
Dan

it must've been cool to be a teacher. I had wanted to do it, but never found my subject in time. And speaking of metaphors, clusters of images and phrases that "drip down your chin". That's what your poetry ALWAYS does that few other poets here at the Den (including me) can do.
Every idea, executed with maximum impact and the most potent phrases and words. I bought Aberjhani's poetry book the other day...Your next. Only lack of $ stands in the way.
michael

...wonderfully written...your words come to life...tumbled with excellence...in this fine creative write.
John

I love the premise of this.
"Suddenly the old language laughs a deep laugh."
That one does it for me.
I just love when it comes together.
Love it--RaeLynn

How I love this...that last stanza, my favorite. You, are the definition of a poet.

Dear David, I always say that you write well and you can teach the others, I am the first one who learns from you. Her reward is the poem. Bravo. Emile

I love it, David. Especially that 4th stanza.
You do write well. -gene.